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Unable to reproduce the issue on reported chrome version 67.0.3396.87 using Windows 10 with the below mentioned steps.
1. Launched chrome
2. Opened Outlook.com and signed into it.
3. Clicked on a link(Ctrl+Click) present in outlook.
4. Which opened it in a new tab.
5. Repeated step(s) 3/4 few other time.
We didn't observe the dropdown menu being seen in a new tab. Attaching the screencast of the same.

@Reporter: Could you please have a look at the screencast and let us know if we have missed anything in the process. Any further inputs from your end may help us.

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Thank you, but to reproduce this issue you need to click the address bar first, and make sure the address bar dropdown shows, and then open a link in an external program (so Outlook the Windows program, rather than Outlook the website).

I've re-written the steps to provide extra clarification:

1. Click the address bar on a website you've visited multiple pages with. This should open the address bar dropdown. If clicking the address bar doesn't show the dropdown for the page you're currently on, please visit a URL that shows the dropdown when you click on the address bar.
2. In an external program (eg the Outlook program, another email client, or a different program that contains links), click a link. Note that Chrome needs to be set as your default browser, so that the link opens in Chrome, and that the clicked URL needs to be to a page that would also show the address bar dropdown, if you clicked on this link in Chrome.
3. A new tab opens with the address bar dropdown showing

This issue only occurs if you're clicking a link in an external program (to open the linked page in Chrome), and if the clicked link's URL shows the address bar dropdown in Chrome when the address bar is clicked.

Basically, if you're using an external email client and need to click links to an online task tracker, but clicked on Chrome's address bar just before that (eg to copy a URL), then the new tab will open showing the dropdown.

Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding the requester to the cc list.

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Tried checking the issue as per the latest comment#3 i.e., using an external application (...outlook) which has URLs in it to open in Chrome browser on reporter version 67.0.3396.87 using Windows 10. Even after checking multiple times we didn't see the opened new tab with drop down (...Made sure omni bar is clicked earlier).

@Reporter: Could you please check the same in a new profile with out any apps & extensions and let us know if the issue still persists.

Thanks!

I can believe this bug exists.  I'll try to take a closer look this week.  These kinds of things are often hard for the testers to reproduce because they usually don't have testing setups that offer suggestions when the user focuses the address bar.  (You have to be signed-in and syncing, among other things.) 

As we are unable to reproduce the issue from our end (...from Comment#5) hence adding label "TE-NeedsTriageHelp" as per comment#6.

Thanks!

fatmediacb@,
I tried reproducing this on Linux, which often behaves like Windows.  I couldn't.

One key question I have is whether, when you click in the external program, in that instant does the address bar dropdown close?  Or does it stay open while the focus is on the external program?  (On Linux, the dropdown closes when Chrome loses focus, which I think might be why I cannot reproduce.)

I'm told by another Chromium developer that this does reproduce on Windows.

Probably the right fix is to make Windows behave like Linux: the omnibox dropdown needs to close when Chrome loses focus on Windows.  (Note that we want to keep edits within the omnibox, just close the dropdown.)  Then when the new tab appears, the omnibox will not try to re-open the omnibox.  At least (without looking closer) that's my theory about how this works. :-)

CC manukh@ who recently touches some possibly-relevant code.  That said, this is a very low priority issue.